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183. In the event of actual hostilities with any 
foreign enemy, or of any extraordinary employment 
of the troops for the maintenance of the public peace, 
such occurrences must be reported both to the Secre- 
tary of State for War and to the Secretary of State for 
the Colonies. 
184. In the event of its being thought necessary to 
make or to advise any military convention with the 
officer in command of the troops of any foreign Power, 
a Governor commanding His Majesty’s troops will at 
the same time report to the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies and to the Secretary of State for War the 
measures which he may have so taken, or those which 
he may wish to recommend for adoption. 
185. In case it should be necessary, in order to 
render the Governor’s military reports clear, to make 
reference, in his correspondence with the Secretary of 
State for War, to questions connected with his civil 
authority, he will in every such case at the same time 
bring such questions under the notice of the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies. 
186. As any attempt to define the limits of a 
Governor's civil and military correspondence may, 
from the nature of the case, be imperfect and may 
omit to provide for some unforeseen exigency, he will 
best meet the requirements of the Secretary of State 
for War and of the Secretary of State for the Colonies 
by conducting his civil correspondence exactly as he 
would conduct it if he possessed no military command, 
and vice versa. The two functions of Governor and of 
Commander of the Forces, though for the time com- 
bined in the same person, should be regarded in this 
fespect as entirely separate, and the reports made by 
the Governor in each capacity should be made pre- 
Cisely in the same manner as if that combination of 
functions did not exist.